Message replies (was: Re: Hebrew Support)

[Andrew Conkling]

On 4/27/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:57 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
>
> > Nah, just keep asking, when appropriate.  It's generally a good idea
> > to consult the docs first, but sometimes things still don't make sense
> > or you can't find them.  We've all been there, and that's why we try
> > to help.  (Just be open to the fact that help may come in the form of
> > a link to relevant docs. ;)
>
>         One other thing to try and remember...  Just because a message may seem
> terse, curt or sharp, the writer most likely didn't intend it to be so.
> A good lesson I learned a long, long, (long, long) time ago is to try
> and read every reply as if it were sent by your loving mother or wife or
> husband or boyfriend or some other person you have a close, caring
> relationship with.  Read the nastiest flames as if they were a kind "get
> well soon" note from above mentioned loved one.  When you're in this
> frame of mind, it helps keep feelings from being hurt and flame wars
> from breaking out over nothing.

Now just a durned cotton pickin' minute here...! oh... hrm... thanks
for caring Joe.  So nice to have you in the family.
A